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o. 574,298. Pagtentd Dec. 29, 1896.

- INVENTOI? %& ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

GEORGE IV. BENNETT, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO CHARLES M. JOHNSON, OF SAME PLACE.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,298, dated December 29, 1896.

Application filed June 12, 1896. Serial No. 595,845. (No model.)

To whom it may concern: Outside of the uppercurved neck, surround 55 Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BENNETT, ing its base and just above the internal rib a citizen of the United States, residing at 7, is an outwardly-extending annular rib 8,

Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and so located that the ribs 7 and 8 will be adja- State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discent to each other, forming rings of comparacovered a new and useful Improvement in tively heavy section, leaving an intervening 6o Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following thin portion 9 between them, which by a is a full, clear, and exact description, refersharp blow will easily break, allowing the enence beinghad to the accompanying drawings, tire upper neck 5 to come away and leaving IO forming part of this application, in which the bottle in the condition shown in Fig. 2,

Figure 1 is a partial vertical sectional view when the cork may be then easily withdrawn. 65

of a bottle constructed in accordance with my A raised tablet 10 may be formed at any invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the point on the upper neck and stamped with a upper neck removed, the lower part of the trade-mark or other distinguishing character bottle being broken away. Fig. 3 is a similar whereby the bottle and its contents may be View of a bottle and the mechanism employed identified. 7 for inserting the cork. In Fig. 3 I have shown suitable mechanism Similar numerals of reference refer to like for applying the cork, consisting of a curved parts wherever used throughout this specifiarm 11, conforming to the same radius as the 2 cation. neck 5, attached to a barrel 12, mounted on My invention refers to the class of breaka central axis 13 and having a handle 1 1. ablenon-refillable bottles, having for its ob- A pin15, projecting out from the end of the ject the construction of a bottle from which barrel 12, maybe engaged bytwo permanent the cork cannot be withdrawn without first stops, limiting the travel of the barrel, as in- 25 removing an upper secondary guard-neck, dicated in full and dotted lines, the cork bethereby elfectually mutilating the bottle and ing forced through the curved neck 5 and just rendering it unfitfor future use in its original past the internal rib '7, and no farther, by condition. reason of thus limiting the stroke.

Referring to the drawings, 2 is the body of Having thus described my invention, what 0 the bottle, providedwith the usual neck 3, in I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patwhich is inserted a cork 4 at about the usual cut, is point. 1. A bottle provided with a straight neck For the purpose of rendering it impossible to receive the cork, an inwardly-projecting to withdraw the cork by means of a corkannular rib inside of such straight neck, an

5 screw or any equivalent instrument I have outwardly-projecting external annular rib,

extended the neck proper upwardly and outand an extended curved neck above the wardly, as shown by 5, curved to the radius straight neck, substantially as set forth. of a circle sufliciently far to secure enough de- 2. A bottle provided with a straight neck fiection from a straight line so that the cork to receive the cork, an inwardly-projecting 0 cannot be reached by a straight instrument. annular rib inside of such straight neck, an

I have illustrated this feature theoretically outwardlyprojecting external annular rib 5 bythe use of a dotted line 6, and it is evident immediately above such internal rib, an in that a curved instrument could not be practervening thin easily-brokenportion between tically employed to withdraw the cork. such ribs, and an extended curved neck above 5 For the purpose of more securely retaining the straight neck, substantially as set forth.

' the cork in position an internal annular rib 7 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set is formed, projecting inwardly from the inner my hand this 5th day of June, 1896. surface of the neck at a point just above the top of the cork when in position, as shown in GEORGE IV. BENNETT.

50 Fig. 1. By this means after the cork is inserted it will be held securely in position and IVitnesses: can be dislodged only by considerable force PETER J. EDWARDS, exerted in line with its center, as in the usual 0. M. CLARKE. manner of using a corkscrew. 

